Tuesday, 23 July 2019

measurement - Physically determine unknown wire's gauge


Is there any way to easily and accurately determine the gauge of stranded wire by measuring it?


I know you can pretty easily determine the gauge of solid-core wire with just a pair of calipers by measuring the conductor diameter, but with stranded wire, wouldn't there be variance in packing-efficiency of the strands? I also had little luck finding a wire-gauge to stranded-wire-diameter table.




I have a bunch of spools of wire that are incorrectly labeled. It appears that someone has respooled a number of the reels, as there are (at least) multiple reels all labeled "22 gauge" with different diameter wire on them.



Answer



http://www.zierick.com/pdf/wire.pdf


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Image is high-resolution to maintain legibility of the small text.


This shows the stranded diameter and sub wire gauge+qty.



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